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DTS
03-13-2001, 04:54 AM
I have an IWILL KK266 overclocking a TBird 900 to 1050. 7 x 150(absolutely rock stable by the way!). I have the core voltage set to 1.80, the VIO set to 3.49. How will the 150 FSB and extra voltage effect the life of the components (incl. hard drives) in my computer? If it means lowering the life of them from 10 to 8 years then I don't care. If it means lowering them from 10 to 2 or 3 years, then that is another story.
Pulsar
03-13-2001, 05:05 AM
They say the overclocking cuts the CPU life in half. That would be from 10 years to 5 years. I dont think many will own a CPU that long.
wildbuffalo
03-13-2001, 07:59 AM
Most of your peripherals (HDD, CDROM, CDRW etc) are desigened to run at 33MHZ PCI/IDE bus. The chip set on the m/b has the appropriate divider for FSB/PCI. Now I do not have any knowledge about KT133A chipset (presuming which is what IWILL KK266 has) But I think VIA KT133A does has proper divider till 133 fsb (/4 = PCI at 33.25) You should check your m/b manual to find out how is the PCI bus set for fsb over 133.

Wild
DTS
03-13-2001, 09:21 AM
Yes, the divider is 4 which makes the PCI run at 37.5. I am just concerned if this is enough to do any significant damage or dramatically shorten the life of any of the components (sound card, video card, hard drive, etc.) plus the VIO is set to 3.49 volts. I not that concerned about the CPU life since it seems like a CPU upgrade is needed about 2-3 years anyway.